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Definition of Mediocrity

1. Noun. Ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding.

2. Noun. A person of second-rate ability or value. "Shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him"

Definition of Mediocrity

1. n. The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.

Definition of Mediocrity

1. Noun. (rare) The quality of being intermediate between two extremes; a mean. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) A middle course of action; moderation, balance. ¹

3. Noun. The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard. ¹

4. Noun. An individual with mediocre abilities or achievements. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mediocrity

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mediocrity

medinas medio- mediocarpal medioccipital mediocer mediocolic sphincter mediocracies mediocracy mediocral mediocrally

mediocre mediocrely mediocreness mediocrist mediocrities mediocrity (current term) mediodens mediodorsal mediodorsal nucleus mediolateral

mediolaterally medionecrosis medionecrosis aortae idiopathica cystica medionecrosis of the aorta mediostapedial mediostrata mediostratum mediostratums

Literary usage of Mediocrity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Renewing the United Nations System by Erskine Childers (1999)
"Sweeping talk of 'mediocrity' is unprofessional and misleading. ... The real extent of irredeemable 'mediocrity' can only be identified by proper, ..."

2. The Rambler: In Three Volumes by Samuel Johnson (1823)
"... it has been observed that happiness, as well as virtue, consists in mediocrity; that to avoid every extreme is necessary, even to him who has no other ..."

3. The works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1824)
"... it has been observed that happiness, as well as virtue, consists in mediocrity; that to avoid every extreme is necessary, even to him who has no other ..."

4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1847)
"THE blessing of mediocrity, that middle state, neither rich nor poor; neither famous nor insignificant; neither ugly nor handsome ; neither tall nor short ..."

5. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: A New Ed., in Twelve Volumes, to which by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1820)
"mediocrity is best, has been long considered as an universal principle, extended through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age ..."

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